Do you have an interesting story to tell about your family history or local area?
Perhaps you have come across some pictures in the attic, or have a personal memory to share.
With a new book detailing the fascinating and unusual place names in Essex, EDMUND TOBIN looked into the origins of some of the towns and
villages on the Guardian's patch.
VISITORS to Essex and its surrounding areas are often amazed by the diversity and strangeness of many of its place names.
A Chingford man who worked for MI5 during the height of the Cold War talks for the very first time about his experiences with reporter Daniel Binns.
Brian Elton, 71, goes about his business unnoticed as he quietly lives out his retirement in a sleepy part of Chingford.
New BBC series Casualty 1907's main character Dr Culpin and his wife Ethel
originally lived in the Meads, a large, smart detached house in Church Hill, Loughton.
On the 90th anniversary of the RAF, the Guardian was invited to join the youngmembers of the Woodford and Wanstead Air Cadets Squadron as they took their first ever flying lessons over the English countryside. Sam Adams reports.
THE first residents of Highams Park had to go a long way to get a pint and had to wait more than a decade before they could drink one in a local public house.
CARVED out of the gravel and clay of Hollow Ponds, Whipps Cross Lido was the biggest swimming pool in Britain when it opened, in a blaze of publicity, in 1932.
